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Dermi‐Domus: A Grown Wardrobe for Bodies and Buildings
Author(s) -
Oxman Neri
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2233
Subject(s) - yesterday , image stitching , wearable computer , clothing , engineering , laundry , art , art history , architectural engineering , visual arts , computer science , artificial intelligence , history , archaeology , embedded system , physics , astronomy , waste management
Stitching and assembly are yesterday's methods of wearables manufacturing. 3D printing, growing, and inbuilt responsive functionality are its future. The Mediated Matter Group founded by architect, designer, inventor and professor Neri Oxman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab is showing the way. Here she describes some of the group's recent ventures: from a filtering cape and skirt, to an artificial organ system that provides useful microbes to the wearer, to a mask designed to capture a person's dying breath.